Worth pointing out again that there’s a lot of — proper! good! — American outrage about the ICE facility being run by a private contractor, but Yarls Wood in the UK was previously run by G4S and is now run by Serco - ThreadSky

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lottelydia.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Worth pointing out again that there’s a lot of — proper! good! — American outrage about the ICE facility being run by a private contractor, but Yarls Wood in the UK was previously run by G4S and is now run by Serco

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lottelydia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Likewise the US is currently in talks with Rwanda about receiving third-country deportees, a policy that was pursued in Britain despite our Supreme Court declaring it illegal until Labour won the July 2024 election and cancelled it

lottelydia.bsky.social•1 day ago

(It’s easy for both Americans and British leftists to assume that Trump and his policies are uniquely awful. But as I’ve pointed out before with academia visas, this stuff isn’t without precedent in the UK, under governments that were positioned as far more “mainstream” than Trump)

lozzadarlo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Simon Marks in for Vanessa Feltz, LBC today had some pigshit ignorant callers on prisons. I listened bc it was SM, forgot to price in it would be VF's audience.

It is profoundly disturbing how many claim to believe that prisons 'are like hotels'. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/14/britain-prison-system-reform-prisoners-release

flisty.bsky.social•1 day ago

US peeps have mocked Noem for cosplaying at a raid in her special outfit, but Patel got there first. We've done way too much of their stuff already and it makes me deeply uncomfortable

flisty.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of trump's first acts was to shut down the app that let people apply before they crossed the border. Still waiting on Starmer to reinstate safe/legal routes, all closed down. Wasn't it Braverman who decided you needed to be in the UK to apply?

flisty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anyway who needs a foreign prison when you can repurpose a legionnaires-riddled prison boat instead

sarahmay1.bsky.social•1 day ago

So many of the things Americans are resisting, British folks let slide years ago.

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